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A raid conducted by Navy SEALs last month in Yemen against an offshoot of the terrorist group Al Qaeda yielded significant intelligence, Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday morning, disputing reports that the operation had proven fruitless.

The raid, which left one SEAL and dozens of civilians dead, has proven increasingly controversial for Trump, who in a Fox News interview broadcast Tuesday morning seemingly blamed the military for the U.S. service members death. Asked about the operation, Trump told Fox & Friends that the mission was started before I got here and said of his generals that they lost Ryan, referring to slain SEAL Ryan Owens.

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In perhaps the most powerful moment of the presidents hour-long address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, Trump spoke warmly of Owens and introduced his widow, seated in the gallery. She received an extended standing ovation, after which Trump said Ryan is looking down right now, you know that, and hes very happy because I think he just broke a record, a line that prompted laughter in the House chamber and a smile from the SEALs wife.

The White House has repeatedly labeled the mission as a success because of the intelligence it yielded, although officials have generally been cautious to couch that characterization with praise for Owens sacrifice. But citing anonymous sources, NBC News reported Tuesday that the operation had not generated any significant information.

Owens father, who refused to meet President Donald Trump when he traveled to greet the remains of the fallen SEAL at Dover Air Force Base, said in an interview with the Miami Herald that the operation should be investigated and warned the White House not to hide behind his sons death. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has said the operation will be automatically reviewed by the Pentagon, in part because a service member was killed.

We were briefed again yesterday by [Defense Secretary James] Mattis, giving us a summary of the intelligence that was gathered, Pence said in an interview Wednesday with CBS This Morning. This was a strike that was directed at obtaining information about the Al Qaeda operating out of Yemen. We do believe it will lay a foundation for victories in the future.

NBC has reported that there was no significant intelligence gathered from that raid is. That wrong? anchor Norah ODonnell followed-up.

That is wrong. I can tell you that Secretary Mattis, as recently as yesterday confirmed again to the administration that there was significant intelligence that was gathered that will lead to American success and to the safety and security of the American people, Pence replied, echoing comments Trump made during his address to Congress.

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Vice President Pence hit the airwaves on March 1 to support President Trump's joint address to Congress and his interviews sounded just a little bit repetitive. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)

Vice President Mike Pence hit the television airwaves on Wednesday morning to support his boss, who less than 12 hours earlier had delivered his first joint address to Congress.

And as he usually does, Pence came prepared perhaps a little bit too prepared. In the video above, we look at the way that Pence brought canned answers to each interview, using some of the same phrases to answer totally and completely different questions.

It was reminiscent of a moment on the 2016 campaign trail, when Sen. Marco Rubio, then a presidential candidate, repeated the line, Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing.

Of course, Pence appeared on five different networks (notably skipping CNN, a recent target of the Trump administration's ire). That makes it unlikely that a whole lot of people saw all five interviews, unless they were specifically switching channels to watch Pence. Which would be sort of weird.

But that still doesn't explain why he talks about broad shoulders so much.

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Mike Pence's unbelievably repetitive interviews Washington Post March 1, 2017 1:29 PM EST - Vice President Pence hit the airwaves on March 1 to support President Trump's joint address to Congress and his interviews sounded just a little bit repetitive. (Peter Stevenson / The Washington Post). March 1, 2017 1:29 ...

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WASHINGTONIn an effort to keep himself virtuously occupied during President Donald Trumps speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, Vice President Mike Pence was reportedly passing time by mentally baptizing all of the senators in attendance. Do you desire to obtain eternal life in the church of God through your faith in Jesus Christ? Pence imagined himself asking every senator in the chamber, contentedly working his way down the aisles to welcome each of the legislators into the fold by tipping their head into the cleansing waters of the Lord. Upon your profession of faith and accordance with the Lords command, I baptize you, Senator Feinstein of California, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. May His everlasting light be with you always. Let us pray. At press time, Pence had reportedly begun mentally stoning all 435 fornicators in the House of Representatives as the presidents speech entered its second hour.

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WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump plans to finalize a new order limiting travel to the United States in the coming days, his vice president said on Wednesday, after federal courts blocked the administration's earlier travel ban.

A White House source had previously said the new order was likely to be announced on Wednesday.

More than two dozen lawsuits were filed in U.S. courts against the Jan. 27 travel ban, which temporarily barred entry to the United States for people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, as well as halting the U.S. refugee program.

The ban was suspended by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling in a case brought by Washington state. The Trump administration then said it would produce a new order.

"They're putting out the finishing touches on that executive order. It should be out in the next few days," Vice President Mike Pence told CBS program "This Morning."

The original order triggered chaos at airports as people, including legal residents known as green card holders, were temporarily blocked from entering the country and federal agencies tried to interpret the new guidelines.

The administration has said it is likely the new directive will exclude legal permanent residents, making it harder for opponents to challenge the ban. [L2N1GD20P]

Pence did not elaborate on the revised directive.

The Associated Press, citing unidentified U.S. officials, reported late on Tuesday that the new order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary travel ban.

(Reporting by Susan Heavey; Editing by Frances Kerry)

U.S. President Donald Trump will target a handful of Obama-era green regulations, including a federal coal mining ban and an initiative forcing states to cut carbon emissions, in an executive order as soon as next week, a White House official told Reuters on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump told Congress on Tuesday he was open to immigration reform, shifting from his harsh rhetoric on illegal immigration in a speech that offered a more restrained tone than his election campaign and first month in the White House.

WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to head the Interior Department as the White House seeks to increase fossil fuel production on federal lands.

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